Cinvestav was created in 1961 by presidential decree (56 kb) , as a public agency with legal personality and its own assets. Its founding director, Dr. Arturo Rosenblueth, prompted an academic requirement has resulted in the success of the institution. It has twenty-eight research departments that are distributed by the nine campuses throughout Mexico. The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (in Spanish: Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional or simply as CINVESTAV-IPN) is a Mexican non-governmental scientific research institution affiliated with the National Polytechnic Institute and founded by president Adolfo López Mateos on 17 April 1961, initially planned as a postgraduate department of the National Polytechnic Institute; this was later modified by President José López Portillo, on 17 September 1982.